Artists who play the famously gorgeous Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado occasionally have the pleasure of being backed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. The Flaming Lips performed the entirety of The Soft Bulletin with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra a few years back, and, uh, Ariel Pink performed with their string section in 2015. Yesterday...

For the past year, the Flaming Lips have expanded their live concept of Wayne-Coyne-in-space-bubble to encompass a whole concert during COVID times. They played their first show to a test audience in bubbles back in October of last year and rolled out an official version of the event earlier this year.

The Flaming Lips have been psychedelic road warriors for decades, and they can’t be that right now. But the Lips have still stayed ultra-busy during the pandemic, and they’ve had all sorts of projects bubbling: the new album, the space bubble shows, the line of weed gummies. A couple of nights ago, the Lips were on Kimmel, ro...

In recent months, the Flaming Lips have been playing a series of “space bubble” shows in their Oklahoma City hometown. That’s a smart adaptation of a preexisting gimmick, but it’s not all the Flaming Lips can do. Last night, the Lips were musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and they didn’t bust ...

In the past year, the Flaming Lips have learned that their whole gimmick is perfectly compatible with the pandemic. After months of planning and an October video-shoot trial run, the Flaming Lips started playing live shows in their Oklahoma City hometown this past January. At these shows, the band and the members of the audience have all been in...